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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Norfolk County Council

Connect to Work

Value£1.2m
Awarded7 Sept 2025
Published10 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
NORFOLK AND WAVENEY MIND
Awarded value£1.2m
Award date7 Sept 2025

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

The Get Britain Working White Paper - GOV.UK, released in November 2024, introduced the key supported employment programme Connect to Work, which aims to help eligible individuals secure sustainable, long-term employment.

Currently, it is estimated that there are about 3 million economically inactive people in the UK, of whom 1.9million people would like to work, but require support to do so.

Norfolk County Council is expected to support 1200 individuals (annually in peak years) at an anticipated and average cost of £3.6million per year, delivered over an initial three-year period, with the opportunity to extend to 4.5 years.

Connect to Work will help connect local work, health and skills support and help eligible participants to secure sustainable work through a voluntary supported employment model, adhering to Individual Placement & Support (IPS) and Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) frameworks.

Through this, Connect to Work will expand the use of the proven five stage Supported Employment model of 'place, train and maintain' Since the issue of the Tender, NCC has secured additional funds from DWP to support a higher number of participants.

NCC will contact the Delivery partners as part of the contracting process to discuss and agree any increase in funding and participant volumes.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Currently, it is estimated that there are

Currently, it is estimated that there are about 3 million economically inactive people in the UK, of whom 1.9million people would like to work, but require support to do so.

02

Norfolk County Council is expected to support

Norfolk County Council is expected to support 1200 individuals (annually in peak years) at an anticipated and average cost of £3.6million per year, delivered over an initial three-year period, with the opportunity to extend to 4.5 years.

03

Connect to Work will help connect local

Connect to Work will help connect local work, health and skills support and help eligible participants to secure sustainable work through a voluntary supported employment model, adhering to Individual Placement & Support (IPS) and Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) frameworks.

04

Through this, Connect to Work will expand

Through this, Connect to Work will expand the use of the proven five stage Supported Employment model of 'place, train and maintain'.

05

Since the issue of the Tender, NCC

Since the issue of the Tender, NCC has secured additional funds from DWP to support a higher number of participants.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052828
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
055431-2025
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